LANDING PRECAUTIONS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 774, 21 September 1929, Page 8

LANDING PRECAUTIONS

CARE OF SPECTATORS BY ALIGHTING PLANES AERO CLUB’S TOUR (THE SUN’S Parliamentary Reporter J WELLINGTON, Friday. The strictest precautions are to be taken in the witnessing by the public, of the arrival of the airplanes of the Auckland Aero Club, which are to visit several North Island towns next month. The object of the visit is to encourage the provision of landing grounds in places where there are none at present. Two machines will leave Auckland on October 2, and visit Paeroa, Te Aroba, Cambridge, Te Awamutu, New Plymouth, Hawera, Wanganui, Wellington, Hastings and Gisborne. An invitation was extended by the secretary of the Auckland Club, Mr L. W. Swan, to those concerned to arrange for school children in the districts to witness the arrival of the planes. The Minister of Defence, the Hon. T. M. Wilford, however, wrote to the club stating that he was anxious about that phase of the tour, and would be glad if the secretary would circularise the authorities, emphasising the danger of the landings and the necessity for the children and any other spectators not being encouraged to go on the actual grounds. These should, if possible, be roped off. Mr. Wilford received advice from the secretary of the Auckland Club today that the question of taking precautions was being attended to, and that the co-operation of everyone concerned would be sought to make everything safe.